Booloumba Creek, near Kenilworth Part 1

Setting off around 9am we decided to head north from Brisbane to Kenilworth, exact destination unknown (as yet). Kenilworth is located approximately 33km west of Nambour on the Sunshine Coast and is what I consider a small country town with enough services to enjoy a day's drive to with all the required comforts.

Some of the comforts that Kenilworth has includes a lovely cheese factory, where you can taste and purchase some of the locally produced cheeses and yoghurts, a bakery (of sorts...pie was yummy), few cafes, a tourist information centre (open 10am-3pm), a service station, a pub, a local store and a great playground for the kids.

Our route took us along the Bruce Highway, then via Steve Irwin Way. Not the traditional and easiest way to get to Kenilworth, but certainly a new adventure for us. Once we had looked at a broad scale and not very informative map we had decided to go through Beerwah, Peachester, Conondale to finally then reach Kenilworth. Well, we managed the Beerwah, Peachester part with a requirement then to turn off towards Maleny (well signed), however the next turn off which should have led us to Conondale and avoid Maleny was not obviously signed and we headed up into the western parts of Maleny via a back road which we took because it looked like it had a nice country vista.

We then continued down the back road from Maleny to Conondale and then on to Kenilworth, with this stretch of our journey quite straight forward.

The roads between Peachester and Kenilworth are quite steep and windy (and I'm sure this includes the road we didn't take to Conondale). Maleny sits atop the Blackall Range and the road between Peachester and Maleny is steep in an upwards direction and the road between Maleny and Conondale takes you down the back of the Range and again can be steep in parts.

Once in Kenilworth we stopped for refreshments and utilised the children's park and lunch spot and the bottom end of town, opposite the cheese factory. This area has a number of tables for the civilised, well-grassed areas for picnicers and great playground areas aimed at a variety of ages for use. At the times I have visited this park it has all been well-serviced and maintained.